Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /
Soneji, Devesh.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.
On historical, social, and aesthetic borderlands -- Producing dance in colonial Tanjore -- Whatever happened to the South Indian nautch?: toward a cultural history of salon dance in Madras -- Subterfuges of "respectable" citizenship: marriage and masculinity in the discourse of devadāsā reform -- Historical traces and unfinished subjectivity: remembering devadāsā dance at Viralimalai -- Performing untenable pasts: aesthetics and selfhood in coastal Andhra Pradesh -- Coda: gesturing to devadāsā pasts in today's Chennai.
Devadāsīs
Devadāsīs
Dance
Prostitution
Social change